Bloody Skulls, Funny Warships And Stranded Astronauts In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

Man, airlines have gotten so strict these days. You aren’t allowed to physically threaten and intimidate a crew member. You aren’t allowed to do any sex stuff. You aren’t allowed to complain about the food. And now, apparently, you aren’t allowed to fly if your head is bleeding. In fact, as one man recently found out, it can even get you arrested. - Collin Woodard Read More

A German warship passing through the UK capital of London caused a stir this week among locals. This wasn’t because it was a German warship passing along the Thames, as it’s not too uncommon to see military ships sailing in London. Instead, the uproar was caused by the ship’s choice of soundtrack for its sailing up the Thames. That’s because the crew decided the best way to soundtrack its voyage was to blast out Darth Vader’s march from “Star Wars.” - Owen Bellwood Read More

An interesting dilemma has cropped up as NASA weighs its options on handling the problem-plagued Boeing Starliner currently docked to the International Space Station. If astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were to hitch a ride back to Earth on a Space-X Crew Dragon, they would need new spacesuits. Boeing’s intravehicular activity suits aren’t compatible with SpaceX’s spacecraft. - Ryan Erik King Read More

Recently, a bunch of right-wing cretins decided Harley-Davidson was too woke and began organizing a boycott. Of course, it was only a matter of time before Fox News joined the boycott bandwagon and started riling up the rest of the cult to put pressure on the motorcycle manufacturer to get rid of its diversity, equity and inclusion policies. It would be great to be able to tell you Harley-Davidson told those human shitstains to go kick rocks, but that’s not what happened. Instead, Harley announced yesterday that it will bow to the bigots. - Collin Woodard Read More

The world’s largest coffee shop chain Starbucks recently announced that it poached Chipotle’s current CEO Brian Niccol, and that he will be super commuting from Newport Beach, California to Seattle, Washington every week to meet Starbucks’ hybrid work policy. The distance between John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California and Seattle International Airport is over 1,000 miles, and Niccol’s offer letter states that he may use the company aircraft to travel from his city of residence to the company headquarters. As it turns out, a weekly 2,000-mile round-trip commute on a privately owned jet creates a monumental carbon footprint. - Logan Carter Read More

Strong storms and a tornado reportedly sank the Bayesian, a 184-foot superyacht, early Monday morning, killing at least one and leaving six others missing, including billionaire Mike Lynch. Divers recovered two bodies from inside the yacht Wednesday, NBC reports. The bodies have yet to be identified, but assuming they’re the only bodies on the boat, that leaves four people still missing. - Collin Woodard Read More

SpaceX, somehow not the worst American space company, has long had big plans for its missions. From spacewalks to killing the International Space Station, the company always seems interested in unprecedented stunts. Now, SpaceX is rolling that spacewalk plan in with another: Sending tourists 870 miles from Earth, with no airlock. - Amber DaSilva Read More

The U.S. Government can do everything it wants to try and convince us all that it doesn’t know anything about alien life in space, but we’ll always assume it’s hiding something. Now, a Pentagon whistleblower has claimed that the government does know about the presence of alien life and even went so far as to hatch a plan to try and catch a UFO in a giant radioactive trap. - Owen Bellwood Read More

A missing pair of scissors brought an international airport in Japan to a standstill last Saturday. The unusual security situation at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido forced 36 flights to be canceled and 201 flights to be delayed, the BBC reports. Considering a winter storm pushed Southwest Airlines into a scheduling meltdown nearly two years ago, it’s not surprising commercial air travel is an operational tight-rope walk. - Ryan Erik King Read More

Hey did you see Oppenheimer last summer? Yeah, that was a year ago. Time sure does fly for humans, but it moves a lot slower for nuclear waste. That stuff has eons of time on its hands, which is why dangerous waste used in the development of the first atomic bombs still exist, and now, that waste is making its way to the Motor City. - Erin Marquis Read More